USPTO Patents Application 10754323

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RE: United States Patent Application No. 1 0/754,323
Filed: January 09, 2004
Title: STAB-IN CONNECTOR
Attorney Docket No: 0326

Dear Examiner Chapman:

Enclosed are figures from the drawings of the respective patents cited in the
Office Actions.

The straight latch of the cited patents has been highlighted in yellow.

Our presently amended claims define a cantilevered locking latch that extends
away from the base in an arc, and that flexes along the arc toward the base to pass
through the slot.

The straight latch of the cited references stays straight where it passes through a
slot, and does not flex along an arc.

I would appreciate your reviewing this.

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